Spring 2009
First Lady Mari Culver’s Shelter Awareness Day
Service Spotlight- AmeriCorps VISTA Member Melissa Simmermaker
Governor Culver recognizes National Volunteer Week in Iowa
President Obama Signs Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
Legislature Acts to Expand Service and Honor AmeriCorps
President Obama Issues FY10 Budget Request for National Service
CNCS Launches National Listening Tour on Serve America Act
President Obama Issues FY10 Budget Request for National Service
Administration Proposes 29% Increase for Corporation
On May 7, 2009, President Obama sent to Congress his Fiscal Year 2010 budget request for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its programs. The President is requesting $1.149 billion, $259 million (29% increase) over the FY09 enacted level. The budget proposes funding levels for many existing and new initiatives authorized by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act and lays the foundation for others.
Click here for information on the President's FY10 budget request from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Highlights of the President's budget include:
- AmeriCorps: Creates 10,000 new AmeriCorps positions, the first step toward the Serve America Act's goal of 250,000 annual members by the year 2017.
- $372.5 million for AmeriCorps State/National grants to support 74,861 members, $101 million or 37% increase over the FY09 enacted level.
- $97.9 million to support 5,980 full time AmeriCorps VISTA members and 1,690 Summer Associates, a $1.8 million increase over the FY09 enacted level.
- $26.3 million to support 1,030 full-time NCCC members (and 90 Summer of Service members) on five campuses.
- National Service Trust: $195.6 million for the Trust, including the first increase in the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award since the program's inception in 1993.
- Senior Corps: $220.9 million to support nearly 500,000 Senior Corps volunteers, a 3.3% increase over the FY09 enacted level.
- Learn and Serve America: $39.5 million to support 1.3 million Learn and Serve participants, $2 million or 5% increase over FY09.
- Social Innovation Fund: $50 million to take successful projects and programs to scale and leverage additional capital from the private sector.
- Volunteer Generation Fund: $10 million to support grants to states and nonprofits to recruit, manage and support volunteers and strengthen the nation’s volunteer infrastructure.
- State Commission Administrative Grants: $16 million to help support commissions’ increased workload.
- Corporation for National Community Service: Includes needed resources to strengthen the capacity of CNCS as their mission and services expand. Provides funds for a national Call to Service campaign and a new National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11.
The President’s budget submission is just one early step in a lengthy appropriations process. Voices for National Service will remain engaged, reaching out to the Administration and the Congress, urging them to approve a substantial investment in national service that will help to make the Serve America Act a reality.
*Material used courtesy of Voices for National Service